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Eric Olczyk
Aug 23, 2013
Published in
The Athletes
Generally the Linebacker is not the star of the team in regards to a fictitious Football team, but that is what we have with Eric Olczyk, the steadying presence of the Cougars. He was their team leader, and a relatively speaking, drama free character who provided the steady balance needed to make the show work. As the show only lasted one season, we never got to see where Olczyk was going to go, or what other dimension he was to be given. Still, this show remains a bit of a cult favorite, and if anyone from this program deserves entry it is Eric Olczyk. The question now is does anyone from Playmakers deserve it? We’ll let you figure that one out.
Derek McConnell
Aug 23, 2013
Published in
The Athletes
Usually the Quarterback is the star of the show, but Derek McConnell was a background character who was not exactly the team leader. Instead he was painted as an average player who seemed to come from the American South, but he used his status to get as many women as possible. Now if that isn’t the American Dream, we don’t know what is.
Demetrius Harris
Aug 23, 2013
Published in
The Athletes
The character of rookie Running Back, Demetrius Harris may not have had much of a moral compass, but that was probably the point of the character on the ESPN original show, Playmakers. The show only lasted one season, though not because of ratings; which were actually very high. The NFL basically threatened ESPN that they would remove the game from the network due to the graphic portrayal of the game, even though they never said it was the NFL, nor did they ever say where the Cougars actually played.
Most of their concerns, we suspect were the depiction of Harris who throughout the season was shown constantly with drugs (including stealing pain medication from a child in a hospital), in strip clubs, and was associated with a murder. Regardless of the unlikability of the character, we did love watching the brashness of Demetrius Harris….even though the actor who portrayed him, Omar Gooding (who is Cuba Gooding Jr.’s brother), kind of looked like a constipated version of Rod Tidwell throughout the series.